Note: Portland
(Pdx) NORML became Oregon NORML in
the fall of 2001. This website, http://www.pdxnorml.org/, is preserved
by Drug Policy
Central for its historic, educational & informational value and is being maintained
by volunteers
for that purpose. It is not officially sanctioned by
nor the responsibility of NORML or any of its affiliates.
Any opinions, viewpoints, ideas and
action items
that may be perceived here are those of past contributors and/or
the current Librarian/activsts.

This page is intended to tell About The Old pdxNORML Website; where it came from, who built it and why, and where it is going.

Here we discuss the Issue, Why one should get involved, a little about the Site,
the now defunct pdxNORML and it's former members and the current keepers of the Site.

Many thanks to those who have helped in it's creation, development and preservation. Fighting the good fight - informing, educating and organizing others to the same.

The government's own statistics say that 71 percent of cannabis consumers and other illegal-drug users age 18 and older are gainfully employed, compared to just 63.3 percent of the general population age 16 and older.

Are you starting to get the impression you haven't been told the whole story? How is prison going to make marijuana smokers as a whole into more productive citizens?

According to the Partnership for a Drug-Free America, 60 percent of American parents have smoked marijuana at least once in their lives. According to NIDA, only 35 percent of the general population age 12 and older has smoked marijuana.

So . . .How does imprisoning and fining marijuana offenders and trying to make them unemployed and homeless help to promote "family values"?

. . . includes a strip of hemp canvas. "Canvas" comes from the Latin word "cannabis." All canvas was made of hemp (Cannabis sativa, L.) until the late 19th century. Every ship that sailed until the advent of the steam engine required tons of hemp fiber for its canvas sails, ropes, rigging and oakum, used to caulk seams. No other fiber could withstand seawater so well.

Hence to control the hemp market was to control the world's seaways. That is what the War of 1812 was all about. It went like this: Because hemp required so much labor at that time to turn into fiber, Russia, which had the cheapest labor force, eventually produced 80 percent of the Western world's hemp and 90 percent of Britain's. During the Napoleonic wars, Britain blockaded France, which in turn tried to neutralize Britain's fleet by blocking its access to Russian hemp. Napoleon and Czar Alexander agreed to do just that in their 1807 Treaty of Tilset.

Although Americans were at first neutral in the conflict, Britain began confiscating American ships and impressing American crews caught trading with the French or their allies. However, the English quietly offered immunity to the Americans if they agreed to bypass the French and bring back hemp from Russia for the British navy. John Quincy Adams, the American consul in St. Petersburg in 1809, wrote that "As many as 600 clipper ships, flying the American flag, in a two week period, were in Kronstadt," St. Petersburg's port. Napoleon, enraged when the Czar refused to stop trading hemp to the Americans for rum, sugar, tobacco and coffee, invaded Russia.

The rest of the story is told in Jack Herer's book, "The Emperor Wears No Clothes." Find out how to order it from our page of links.

Since Marijuana Library first went online in 1995 as Portland NORML, this site has grown to become one of the largest drug-policy-reform resources on the Web, with over 50 megabytes of information in more than 800 files (not including more than 12 megabytes of graphics). Just one of this site's unique features is an immense archive of local, national and international news articles on cannabis and drug policy, spanning a period from about 1999 back to 1992 and even farther.
Please take some time to
check out the other extensive offerings in our various directories - big as this home page is, it hardly begins to describe the entire site. Whatever your opinions may currently be about cannabis and drug policy, you are guaranteed to find a lot of fascinating and authoritative information here.

Portland NORML's original webmaster was Phil Smith, a High Times
Freedom Fighter (May 1997) and medical-marijuana patient whose psychiatrist recommends his use of cannabis for major depression and the debilitating side effects from 10 years of toxic FDA-approved chemotherapy. (This tends to discomfit those who would have you believe the "Reefer Madness" myth that cannabis use causes or exacerbates mental illness.
As usual, the drug warriors' science is 180 degrees wrong, and of course quite harmful.) Convicted of trying to provide cannabis to other medical-marijuana patients below cost in 1997 in Portland, Smith ended up maintaining this site from exile in San Francisco, where he is not considered a criminal. He has since retired from web duties, but his legacy lives on. Thanks Phil!

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Site Map and Index. Providing whatever service we can for the Northwest
Pacific and beyond. Contact us for more
information.

the Library. "What happened?" Archive of stuff built by Portland
NORML volunteers and other remains of the old site. News and other items
of historical interest. Unique articles about the movement in Oregon and
the world at the time.

News and info. "What's happening?" Informing and Educating yourself and
then others about why we do this. See also ALERTS! and
Events.

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> involving medical aspects of cannabis?
Medical Cannabis Orgs & info;
How to become a cannabis-legal patient, if possible, and other relevent
resource info.

> due to politics or the same, old, basic hassle?
Legal info Laws and legal resources org'd by State and Federal.

The Monthly NORML Newsletter. For printed news and such, for your Cannabis Law Reform Information and
Outreach. This unit works in conjunction with others to
provide a hardcopy medium of communication for the cause.

da Biz -
Bizness Associations; cannabis friendly Sources for products;
potential donors, sponsors and supporters of events or ideas;
and, someday, cannabis friendly employment guide (at least tell you
who/how to avoid!) This will include Bizness DisAssociation, where we
boycott those who support the war or any of it's tentacles.

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Hemp for Victory; Not only should we buy hemp and unilaterally
support the biz, but work to get a seed planted in the US of A! > Action; Legis

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Media. It's up to us to get the word out. It's up to us to
choose cannabis friendly media and communications.

* Need help?
Legal info and Liberty resources index. For simple possession
or even small grows. Also hassles; ie- opening a hemp store, or
patient and doctor rights, even crossing the border with literature!

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